Reach Out And Touch...Someone

I have lost my notepad-the notepad on which I write down all the things that I must do on a given day! (Question: How do you remember to buy a new notepad when you can't write down on the front of your old notepad, "Buy a new notepad?" The irony is staggering!) It did get me to thinking, though, about the various records that we, and others, keep of our lives.

My little book/notepad was good for my life only and, thus, practically useless to anyone else. But please carefully consider the following....

Verizon recently belched forth their new phone books for New York City. There were literally millions of copies (over 5,000 tons of paper worth) and if you laid them all end to end, you could walk from here to Knoxville, Tennessee, on a pavement of phone books, provided that you had some strange desire to do so. If you stacked them all one on top of the other...well, that would be an indication that you had way too much time on your hands. And for all of this, the books are incomplete since 30% of New Yorkers paid a fee for an unlisted number and hundreds of thousands more only use their cell phone, having done away with the old dinosauer landline.

That is just New York City. When the Kuwaitis bailed out just ahead of the Iraqi invasion almost 20 years ago, they took along a floppy disc containing a complete register of the nation's citizenry.

Those are just lists of names. When William of Normandy conqured England, he compiled a two-volume set listing not only each citizen's name, but his possessions as well. This was, of course, for tax purposes and was appropriately dubbed "The Dooms Day Book."

Revelation 20:12-15 tells us that God keeps a set of books of His own. One volume, like the Kuwaiti microchip, lists every single citizen of Heaven. The other-a multi-volume set, records the name of every single person who has ever lived, along with an account of the debt of sin that is owed to the King of kings and Lord of lords. Unlike the phone book, no one can remain unlisted. One way or another, God has your number!

So, how about it? Are you in the Dooms Day Book or are you in the registry of the citizens of Heaven? The choice is yours and it totally depends upon what you do with God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Will you trust Him as your personal Savior today?

Reach Out And Touch...Someone,
Pastor David Blevins